Jeremiah Owyang claims that people don’t trust bloggers. To back up this claim, he cites three market research studies showing that when given a choice, people would choose to listen to their friends and family rather than “bloggers”. The three studies were done by respected marketing research companies: Forrester, Edelman, and Pollara. They all agree […]

Has it really been nine months? Last August, when I decided to go out on my own and start Bokardo Design, I also began writing a book on a new aspect of design that I called “social design”. Social design was the term I used when thinking about and designing for the social interactions between […]

The next North Shore Web Geek Meetup is happening this Thursday night, April 17, in Newburyport, MA. Here are the details: Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008 Place: The Grog (see map) Start: ~6-7pm Ends: ~9-10pm See the Facebook group or Upcoming page. By the way, at this meeting we’ll be setting the date for the […]

That’s because I’m currently not being indexed by Google. Two weeks ago Google dropped this site from their search results because of the number of spam links I had on my pages. I did not put them there, of course, and I tried multiple times to get rid of them, but hackers kept coming back […]

For those interested in online identity-related matters, I would like to turn your attention to a new blog on the subject: Own Your Identity I’m writing this blog along with web-maven Brian Oberkirch and polar explorer turned web revolutionary Tony Haile. We’re just getting started, but our goal is to lead a discussion on the […]